DEAR DAVE, is a tri-annual publication of photography and writing, celebrating a community of visual thinking with affection and mirth, publishing idiosyncratic and original work that is deserving of further recognition. DEAR DAVE, is interested in the most unpredictable work of all genres and sensibilities, and from the familiar to the unknown.
Since 2007, DEAR DAVE has published prose by Hilton Als, Lyle Rexer, Christopher Bollen, Lynne Tillman, francine prose, Glenn O’Brien, Joan Juliet Buck, Linda Yablonsky, Philip Gefter, Paul Moakley, charles traub, TIM MAUL, Alix Browne, Liz Goldwyn, Mark Alice Durant, Richard Woodward, Susan Bright, gregory eddi jones, Derek Blasberg, Ryan McGinley, Roxana Marcoci and David Levi Strauss, among many others.
Photographic portfolios have included work by charlie engmann, Erik Madigan Heck, Josef Astor, Asger Carlson, roe ethridge, Bobby Doherty, mark peterson, barbara ess, Eva Stenram, Ina Jang, Valerie Belin, Marco Breuer, Namsa Leuba, Joshua Citarella, Jessica Craig-Martin, elinor carucci, Helen Levitt, oliver wasow, david brandon geeting, An My-Le, marilyn minter, Brian Finke, Timothy Greenfield Sanders, and Neil Krug.
DEAR DAVE, engages a series of ongoing, public conversations and has arranged dialogues between Saul Leiter with Vince Aletti, Juergen Teller with Cathy Horyn, Paul Graham with Philip Gefter, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg with Susan Bright,Thomas Struth with Gil Blank, Elinor Carucci with Susan Bright, Penelope Umbrico with Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Todd Hido with Darius Himes, Roger Ballen with Darius Himes, Roe Ethridge with Kevin Moore, Rosalind Solomon with Charlotte Cotton, among others.
DEAR DAVE, magazine is now available only by subscription or single issues by post. back issues from 1 to 26 are sold out. Published three times a year in May, October and February. Forthcoming single issues are $21 and an annual subscription is $60.
The publisher is Roger O. Thornhill. The founder and editor is Stephen Frailey (stephen@stephenfrailey.com). The founding creative director and designer is Michael J. Walsh. Cover editor is Mary Ehni. The director of strategy is Jason Isolini and MIILO WALL is director of social engagement.